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Congratulations on your graduation. First of all, I would like to reinforce to you that your primary duties in either branch would be to be an officer. Secondly, it will be difficult in either branch to make it there, and you should not choose your branch based on this factor. Consider...

Wimps.

Nope. As hungry as I was on average, everything tasted pretty good, to me. You'll get in trouble for using the salt anyway. ;) My favorite was french toast days--no syrup required.

Oh great, even more yokels dangerously clogging up the airspace. It's bad enough how some people drive their cars around!

Shh, you'd better not give us away or we'll "move you out" too! ;)

We've got a roommate moving out in a week or two to JAX for P-3's, have a house out the back gate about 10 mins. For your consideration: http://pensacola.craigslist.org/roo/1203886214.html

Also, I might add that I have a roommate leaving for JAX here in the near(ish) future, we live out the back gate just north of Big Lagoon State Park in a fairly nice neighborhood. If you're interested, PM me and we can coordinate some kind of tour if your timeline coincides with ours.

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Cool. But, why wouldn't you call it torture? And why not? That is, how do you define it then? This is what I'm trying to peg down.

Not if you apply conductive jelly to the electrodes, first... but is waterboarding torture? Of course it is. Just because it's not prying off someone's fingernails with pliers doesn't mean it's not also extremely unpleasant. You don't have to maim someone to torture them. That being said...

Went to college at UIUC, myself. BSA would be a good deal, you learn a lot of neat useful stuff and you meet other Eagle Scouts later on in life and it helps. Don't join the CAP unless you really want to; it's totally not necessary for what you want to do. No matter if you want to go to...

If you don't quit...not too many.

And even then, it's only candi-o's. It's an easy reason to screw with you a little. I had problems keeping a straight face while I was yelling at the new guys.

Not past the MEPS physical, that's what it's there for. You could go to your own doctor ad nauseum to see if he could find anything wrong with you, but the bottom line is... if NAMI whammies you, it whammies you. Most people get through fine and if not you can always try to get a waiver.

Argh, looks like I'm going E-2's. :icon_tong

In ground school those days! Grr! :icon_rage

It's a risk-assessment problem. How bad do you want to talk to people? You can get away with it probably... ...but remember, they'll murder you and everyone else in your class if you get caught.

lol, wow. well, I do have some advice, first of all, it's probably not a good idea to tell your superiors to shut their mouths and speak when spoken to; I would think as a prior you would know this. In any case you'll learn in OCS. This isn't a completely anonymous forum, and besides, it's a...

Oh yeah, marine ocs threads always get me. Still, the principle is the same. Press.

The anticipation is always the worst part. Just get ready otherwise, and try not to worry, you'll be fine. As for running, I only had about 11:40 going in...out PFT was 8:54. It sucks, but probably not as much as you're fearing. Again, you'll be fine.

I had a similar package, and no prior flight time besides, and I got picked up. (For NFO but not Pilot, if it makes a difference?) I'd say your chances are pretty good.

Naw, dude, naw... Relax and enjoy yourself while you still can. What you could do though, is get yourself an AIM, and put that sucker on the back of your toilet. Flip that sucker open to a random page when you have some time to kill and learn yourself a few things, now that's good gouge.

I would say the second looks obviously better anyway, but... The scores are based on relative percentiles on a bell curve, so a 6 is a significant deviation over a 5.

The only cure, destroy the head or the brain...

If you don't have no-kidding-asthma, don't worry about it. It's not any kind of "challenge" where it makes it harder to breathe. You just breath in a tube for awhile and take deep breaths. No sweat.

I might disagree with some of you. As an SNFO, I have found IFS to be a most helpful experience in every phase of training so far, including up to VNAV's. It is far from a waste of time for SNFO's, and IIRC it wasn't a cake walk either. I'd rather you not "crank up the heat" any more...

Yeah, it's really important. IFS has been the single most helpful thing up until this point, and I'm in intermediate. It's designed for people with no flight time, and you shouldn't have a big problem getting through if you work hard, but if you really have the money to blow a couple hours...

You took the ASVAB for officer selection? Is this normal?

"Forgot", riiiiight...I do that all the time. ;) Seriously though, don't wear boxers, lest your balls fall out during the duck walk. :D

IMHO, the UN is a handy distraction that gives the illusion that all the little guys have a valid way to bitch at us. Otherwise, they'd be faced with the huge, terrifying truth that...they can't do anything. I say we keep it. It gives them a good outlet and keeps them "off the streets".

well, you are supposed to bring a few hundred bones of spending money with you. Also, all your uniform gear you buy on credit with the uniform shop, and pay at the end. If you're smart, you also sign up for the military star card and get 10% off on that bill, pay it off thereafter, and keep...

Get that A/C on full ice in your face, not that you could take it by yourself but benadryl would work really well. I hear good things about ginger. Plus you get used to it.

Paradrop Xbox's, porno, and blue jeans. Execution is a red herring, they're suicide soldiers anyway.

My OCS date was one year ago on March 15, hard to believe how far we've come. Stick with it guys, you'll all do great.

Resistance is Futile...You will be assimilated...

Yeah. Newport. Your recruiter...let's be nice and just say, should know that.

Oh yeah, hawaii is good to, temptation for p-3's... Anyway, make the huskers look good and check it out online, there's a wealth of info on it, probably on wiki. You from omaha?

Nope, Barron's is worthless, I've heard. At least use the arco book (in the bookstore, because that was pretty worthless too except for spacial app test(plus it's online for free somewhere)). Most of my practice came from the "marine gouge" on here somewhere, plus some online glossaries for...

True, very true. I did change my pref. sheet today, btw.

Officer Aptitude Rating (OAR): This score is affected by performance on the first three subtests, Math Skills, Reading Comprehension, and Mechanical Comprehension. I think you may not have to take all the sections if you're not a 13XX designator. At a minimum, the ones listed above.

E-2's before P-3's? You must be joking! :D

Good question. The only thing bad enough to tempt me out of trying for P-3's. I might just edit my pref. sheet after reading this thread.

IMHO you wouldn't want to jump right into meds, but he might really need to talk it all out with someone. Remember, that chimp that tore that lady's face off was on Xanax too. Yeah I know xanax is a muscle relaxer. It's just not always good to numb your emotions when you're trying to work...

Relax. You'll need to learn to develop some patience. Hey, enjoy your time though, once you start it's a crazy ride.

Besides, they put stuff in the blue juice to make sure of that, don't they? :D

Cut these type of guys all you want. Kind of childish thing to do to the ones that are already squared away.

Uh-oh, A-pool kiddies are grounded again. Does anyone else thing this isn't a very good way to teach us a lesson? What does punishing the whole do? Does it say, "don't go out and shoot protected species in wildlife refuge"? No kidding? Wow, my weekend plans are cancelled I guess.

They already have consequences, it's called criminal laws. I propose you stfu, Illinois.

Red Herring. Just another dictator.